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• NASA's Ingenuity helicopter photographs Martian rocks with 'curious lines'

  05-08-2021 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took pictures of the 'Raised Ridges' area on Mars during its July 24 flight, its 10th, that may have been caused by wind and dust or possibly water.
  
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• Jupiter's surface is heated by it's auroras that are fueled by its volcanic moon

  05-08-2021 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jupiter's atmospheric temperature is 798F, despite it being five times from the sun than Earth. This is due to the planet's powerful arouras releasing that are fueled by its moon Io.
  
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• SpaceX's Super Heavy rocket is moved to the launch pad while the Starship S20 is rollout out

  05-08-2021 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX is preparing for its first Starship orbital launch and has lowered the Super Heavy booster on the launch pad, which is now sitting feet away from Starship SN20 that was just rolled out today.
  
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• Deadly six ft long West African banded cobra loose in Texas: Cops put hospitals on alert 

  05-08-2021 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A West African banded cobra has been reported missing by its owner in Texas this week after it escaped from its enclosure
  in Grand Prairie on August 3 around 5 pm.
  
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• Yellowstone National Park was rattled by more than 1,000 earthquakes in July

  05-08-2021 21:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A total of 1,008 earthquakes hit Yellowstone in July, with 764 located 11 miles beneath a lake in the park. The quakes were caused by ground water moving through pre-existing faults.
  
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• Facebook: Damian Collins and US politicians criticise data ban

  05-08-2021 20:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Damian Collins accuses the company of shutting down legitimate research to protect its own interests.
  
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• That's nuts! Study shows how squirrels leap and land without falling

  05-08-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Squirrels like human parkour athletes when it comes to getting from one place to another, a new study from experts in Berkeley, California shows.
  
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• NASA discovers a nearby star that looks like a young version of the sun

  05-08-2021 19:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The star is just 600 to 750 million-years-old and gives insight into what our young sun would have been like, according to researchers from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
  
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• 52 of the best films on Netflix UK this week

  05-08-2021 19:41
  
  Stuck for a good film on Netflix? Here's our pick of the best Netflix movies to feast your eyes on, updated weekly
  
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• 49 of the best Netflix series to binge watch right now

  05-08-2021 19:37
  
  Struggling with what to watch on Netflix tonight? Look no further than the WIRED guide to the best Netflix TV shows in 2021. Updated weekly
  
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• Nazi time capsule containing a picture of Adolf Hitler found hidden in a wall in a German house

  05-08-2021 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Nazi artifacts were stashed away when American forces marched through Hagen in April 1945. Nazi soldiers feared they would be arrested if allied forces found the trove of goods.
  
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• Google Maps warns drivers about emission charges

  05-08-2021 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drivers heading through London or Paris will receive a warning about clean-air fees and fines.
  
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• DNA extracted from a 32,000 year-old brown bear in Japan shows they once lived near Tokyo 

  05-08-2021 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have taken DNA from a brown bear that lived around 32,000 years ago found on the island of Honshu that suggests it once lived near present-day Tokyo.
  
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• Sen. Rand Paul: ‘Resist. They Can’t Arrest Us All’

  05-08-2021 17:31 via technocracy.news
  
  Sen. Rand Paul is pro-vaccine choice and pro-freedom. He rightly says, “We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and feckless bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again.” This is a justification for issuing a call to action: “Do Not Comply!”
  Technocracy News & Trends declared war on Technocracy on January 15, 2016 with good cause. The pseudo-science Technocrats were using all the dystopian tools that we see tod
  
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• VIDEO: Pet cat faces down a wild brown bear in Siberian fishing camp

  05-08-2021 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vasya the hero cat was filmed by angler Sergey Tarasov in the camp beside the Angara River near Ust-Ilimsk in the Irkutsk region of Siberia facing down the wild brown bear.
  
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• Global Citizens Rebel Against Lockdowns, Masks, Vaccine Mandates

  05-08-2021 17:06 via technocracy.news
  
  The promise of “new-normal” after vaccinating the public turns out to be a big lie as mandates for masks, vaccines, vaccine passports and lockdowns return with a vengeance. People are fed up and taking to the streets in abject rebellion to the would-be Technocrat overlords. ⁃ TN EditorCOVID-19 vaccines were supposed to set you free and bring life back to what it looked like in 2019 — no masks, no lockdowns and freedom for everyone, regardless of vaccination status.
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• Cross words over New York Times puzzle change

  05-08-2021 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US-based publication is cutting third party support for its popular crossword puzzles.
  
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• Scientists post freeze-dried mouse sperm on a postcard

  05-08-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'We think the sperm never expected that the day would come when they would be in the mailbox,' said the study's lead author Daiyu Ito, of the University of Yamanashi in Japan.
  
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• Gulf Stream is at its weakest for over 1,000 YEARS due to climate change

  05-08-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) system, powering the Gulf Stream is close to the brink of collapse, according to the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.
  
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• America’s Dystopian Social Credit System Is Marching Forward

  05-08-2021 16:32 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocracy seeks to control everything and everyone. It was Big Tech inventions and assistance that enabled China’s Social Credit Scoring System to capture 1.4 billion Chinese citizens. They are now implementing the same strategies in the U.S. to permanently bifurcate society. ⁃ TN EditorThe new domestic “War on Terror,” kicked off by the riot on Jan. 6, has prompted several web giants to unveil predecessors to what effectively could become a soft social credit system by
  
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• US Navy is developing a pilotlesss solar-powered plane that can fly for 90 days straight

  05-08-2021 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Skywalker is a pilotless solar-powered plane fitted with 2,900sqft of solar cells that allows it to fly 90 days straight. It will be used to monitor naval ships at sea or as a communications relay platform.
  
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• COP26: What is the UN climate conference in Glasgow and why is it so important?

  05-08-2021 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The annual climate change summit is being held in Glasgow - who's going and what's at stake?
  
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• Scientists modify the genes of daddy long leg spiders and turn them into 'daddy short legs'

  05-08-2021 16:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists altered the genes of daddy long legs and shortened six of their legs by nearly half, according to a newly published study. They use RNA interference to sequence their genome.
  
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• Exoplanet 35 light years away has half the mass of Venus, study says

  05-08-2021 14:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), located in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile to shed light on the neighbouring planetary system, L 98-59.
  
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• Number pinged by NHS Covid-19 app falls significantly

  05-08-2021 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The fall is based on data gathered before changes to the app which mean it will notify fewer contacts.
  
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• Almost 400,000 Brits have had 'long Covid' for over a year, official figures suggest

  05-08-2021 14:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some 945,000 Brits have long-Covid and 40 per cent of them have been suffering for more than a year, according to estimates from the Office for National Statistics.
  
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• Forget Impossible, the fungi renaissance is here

  05-08-2021 14:00
  
  While Impossible and Beyond burgers grab all the headlines, a much more humble foodstuff is poised to lead the next wave of alternative proteins
  
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• Keeping old computers going costs government £2.3bn a year, says report

  05-08-2021 13:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Just under half the entire IT budget goes on patching up outdated systems, a government report says.
  
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• 8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth

  05-08-2021 13:33 via go.theregister.com
  
  Caltech received $100m for the project and is only just telling us now Billionaire Donald Bren was behind a quiet $100m donation in 2013 that established Caltech's Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP) in an attempt to harness solar power from outer space, the California private research university revealed this week.…
  
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• 17 of the best films on Amazon Prime UK right now

  05-08-2021 13:25
  
  Our pick of the best films available on Amazon Prime UK
  
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• Plant-based diet can slash the risk of heart disease by up to 52%, study finds 

  05-08-2021 12:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The long-term study, which looked at the diet of some 5,000 people over a 30-year period to see if they developed heart disease, was led by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
  
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• TikTok takes on Snapchat with new Stories feature

  05-08-2021 12:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok Stories is being tested with a sample of users prior to a potential full-scale roll out. The feature has been officially confirmed by the app, owned by Beijing firm Bytedance.
  
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• Gulf of Mexico's dead zone where low oxygen suffocates marine life is now larger than CONNECTICUT

  05-08-2021 12:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This year's Gulf of Mexico's dead zone 6,334 square miles, an area slightly larger than the state of Connecticut, when it has clocked in a 5,380 square miles over the past few years.
  
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• Betelgeuse's 'Great Dimming' was caused by a dark star-spot dropping temperature, study claims

  05-08-2021 12:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The temperature of the surface between January and April 2020 was tracked by experts working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, finding a 300F decrease in line with the dimming.
  
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• China warns gaming firms could lose tax breaks in latest threat to the multi-billion sector

  05-08-2021 12:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sector, which raked in 130 billion yuan ($20 billion) in the first half of this year, was earlier this week accused of feeding 'spiritual opium' to Chinese children, turning them into screen zombies.
  
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• Vegan diet can slash the risk of heart disease by up to 52%, study finds 

  05-08-2021 12:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The long-term study, which looked at the diet of some 5,000 people over a 30-year period to see if they developed heart disease, was led by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
  
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• Majority of EV owners say they won't ever buy a petrol or diesel car again

  05-08-2021 08:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When asked why, the top response - from 65% of the panel - said they wouldn't go back for environmental reasons while 62% said electric car technology is only going to improve in the future.
  
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• TikTok tests Snapchat style vanishing video stories feature

  05-08-2021 07:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The news comes as Facebook's WhatsApp starts to roll out a disappearing photos and videos feature.
  
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• Why AI is watching volleyball at the Tokyo Olympics

  05-08-2021 07:00
  
  Omega, the official timekeeper of the Games, is now using computer vision and motion sensors for events like swimming, gymnastics, and beach volleyball
  
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• These are the 100 hottest startups in Europe in 2021

  05-08-2021 07:00
  
  From London to Lisbon and Stockholm to Paris, European startup successes are plentiful, but challenges still remain
  
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• Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin calls SpaceX's lunar Starship an 'immensely complex and high risk' approach

  05-08-2021 01:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blue Origin posted an infographic on its website , that calls SpaceX's lunar Starship an 'immensely complex and high risk' approach for NASA's Artemis moon mission in 2024.
  
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• Scuba-diver photographs Scotland's colourful marine life

  05-08-2021 01:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scuba-diver Ross McLaren has taken thousands of photos of marine life in Scotland's rivers and sea-lochs.
  
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• Nearly a third of waking hours spent on TV and streaming, Ofcom says

  05-08-2021 01:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Older people have been watching more linear TV while on-demand is a big hit with younger audiences.
  
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• Farm pesticides killing more bees - study

  05-08-2021 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Commercial formulas containing multiple chemicals should require their own licences, researchers say.
  
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• Why whales in Alaska have been so happy

  05-08-2021 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What will happen to Alaska's whales when tourism returns to waters stilled by Covid?
  
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• Shocking images reveal the distressing effects of litter on wildlife in London parks this year

  05-08-2021 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the last year 1,982 tonnes of waste - the equivalent weight of 157 new London Routemaster buses - was collected from parks and green spaces in the capital, the Royal Parks charity said.
  
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